| poeTV | Submit | Login   |

Reddit Digg Stumble Facebook
Desc:Stephen Jay Gould lecture on why evolution is difficult for some people to accept, even today.
Category:Science & Technology, Pets & Animals
Tags:Darwin, Evolution, Stephen Jay Gould, evolution is not about progress, punctuated equilibrium
Submitted:EvilHomer
Date:02/16/15
Views:2303
Rating:
View Ratings
Register to vote for this video
Buy Song:iTunes - Amazon

People Who Liked This Video Also Liked:
Maisie Williams reacts to last week's Game of Thrones
Train Simulator... With Zombies
Item Abuse 3: The Finale (The Hardest Super Mario World Level In Existence)
Liu Kang vs. Reptile
The Simpsons - Return of the USSR
Filthy Facebeard being filthy.
Skittle Dicks Part 1
Japanese Net Launching Gun
Yo Yogi!: Tricky Dicky's Dirty Trickies
A stray cat came to be muffed saying GOROGORO

Help keep poeTV running


And please consider not blocking ads here. They help pay for the server. Pennies at a time. Literally.

Comment count is 5
EvilHomer - 2015-02-16

Apologies for the shite VCR quality. There's other versions of this lecture floating around online, but this one comes in a single part and includes the comic strip slides Professor Gould loved to hate.


Stopheles - 2015-02-16

I'm unable to watch this right now, so could someone tells me if he says "if people weren't created as described in the Bible, then the concept of Original Sin isn't an issue and as such the whole concept of Jesus dying to absolve humanity of it wasn't necessary"?


EvilHomer - 2015-02-16

No, he does not. Gould isn't much given towards theological arguments, although that is certainly one way to look at the conflict between evolution and it's discontents, specifically between evolution and Biblical creationists! (as Gould points out, "evolution", at least as a broader set of non-Darwinian theories, was never really in conflict with the mainstream of Christian scientific thinking; scary as it is to say, YEC and Biblical literalists were NOT the dominant force in the Victorian period that they are today)

Rather, Gould's main purpose with this lecture is to examine the problems people have with Darwin *even within those groups that purport to "accept" his theories*. Specifically, it's about the often misunderstood, profoundly anti-progressive implications of Darwin's theory of natural selection; how these implications are just as difficult for the modern popular imagination to come to grips with, as they were back in the Victorian age

Anyway, I don't want to give too much away, but it's good fun! All of the ideas presented herein can be found in his books (he even works in a shout-out to The Panda's Thumb), but you should check it out if you get the chance!


Gmork - 2015-02-16

Great lecture. Reminds me of a teacher I had.


SteamPoweredKleenex - 2015-02-16

"Hello, sir. What name is your reservation under?"
"Stephen Jay Gould."
"Hmmm. No, no Stephen J. Gould here."
"But I called it in a week ago!"
"And you are..?"
"Stephen Jay Gould!"
"I'm sorry, but Stephen J. Gould isn't in the computer."


Register or login To Post a Comment







Video content copyright the respective clip/station owners please see hosting site for more information.
Privacy Statement